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Optimized Thin-Film Organic Solar Cell with Enhanced Efficiency

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  • Waqas Farooq

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology, Peshawar 25000, Pakistan)

  • Muhammad Ali Musarat

    (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Bandar Seri Iskandar 32610, Perak, Malaysia)

  • Javed Iqbal

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology, Peshawar 25000, Pakistan)

  • Syed Asfandyar Ali Kazmi

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology, Peshawar 25000, Pakistan)

  • Adnan Daud Khan

    (Center for Advanced Studies in Energy, University of Engineering & Technology, Peshawar 25000, Pakistan)

  • Wesam Salah Alaloul

    (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Bandar Seri Iskandar 32610, Perak, Malaysia)

  • Abdullah O. Baarimah

    (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Bandar Seri Iskandar 32610, Perak, Malaysia)

  • Ashraf Y. Elnaggar

    (Department of Food Nutrition Science (Previously Chemistry), College of Science, Taif University, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia)

  • Sherif S. M. Ghoneim

    (Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Taif University, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia)

  • Ramy N. R. Ghaly

    (Mininstry of Higher Education, Mataria Technical College, Cairo 11718, Egypt)

Abstract

Modification of a cell’s architecture can enhance the performance parameters. This paper reports on the numerical modeling of a thin-film organic solar cell (OSC) featuring distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) pairs. The utilization of DBR pairs via the proposed method was found to be beneficial in terms of increasing the performance parameters. The extracted results showed that using DBR pairs helps capture the reflected light back into the active region by improving the photovoltaic parameters as compared to the structure without DBR pairs. Moreover, implementing three DBR pairs resulted in the best enhancement gain of 1.076% in power conversion efficiency. The measured results under a global AM of 1.5G were as follows: open circuit voltage ( V oc ) = 0.839 V; short circuit current density ( J sc ) = 10.98 mA/cm 2 ; fill factor (FF) = 78.39%; efficiency ( η ) = 11.02%. In addition, a thermal stability analysis of the proposed design was performed and we observed that high temperature resulted in a decrease in η from 11.02 to 10.70%. Our demonstrated design may provide a pathway for the practical application of OSCs.

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  • Waqas Farooq & Muhammad Ali Musarat & Javed Iqbal & Syed Asfandyar Ali Kazmi & Adnan Daud Khan & Wesam Salah Alaloul & Abdullah O. Baarimah & Ashraf Y. Elnaggar & Sherif S. M. Ghoneim & Ramy N. R. Gha, 2021. "Optimized Thin-Film Organic Solar Cell with Enhanced Efficiency," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(23), pages 1-11, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:13:y:2021:i:23:p:13087-:d:688381
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